Scottish Executive

Drug Misuse

Mary Scanlon (Highlands and Islands) (Con): To ask the Scottish Executive how many people received drug and alcohol rehabilitation treatment in each of the past five years.

Iain Gray: Information on the total number of individuals receiving drug and alcohol rehabilitation treatment is not available centrally.

  The following table shows the number of new patients reported to the Scottish Drug Misuse Database. Agencies reporting to the database provide a wide range of drug-related services; patients receiving rehabilitation cannot be explicitly identified from the database. Misuse of alcohol may be reported to the database, but only when alcohol is secondary to other drugs of misuse.

  


New Individual Patients/Clients reported to the Scottish 
  Drug Misuse Database1-3;
by Health Board area of residence; Years ending 31 March 
  



 


1996 
  

1997 
  

1998 
  

1999 
  

20004




Scotland 
  

7,694 
  

 8,652 
  

 8,846 
  

9,759 
  

11,237 
  



by health board of residence 
  



Argyll and Clyde 
  

730 
  

958 
  

1,365 
  

1,468 
  

1,255 
  



Ayrshire and Arran 
  

189 
  

303 
  

356 
  

140 
  

1,181 
  



Borders 
  

43 
  

59 
  

21 
  

79 
  

80 
  



Dumfries and Galloway 
  

134 
  

149 
  

153 
  

232 
  

199 
  



Fife 
  

221 
  

384 
  

362 
  

395 
  

 434 
  



Forth Valley 
  

160 
  

172 
  

160 
  

334 
  

280 
  



Grampian 
  

752 
  

947 
  

1,056 
  

1,316 
  

1,348 
  



Greater Glasgow 
  

3,066 
  

3,223 
  

2,833 
  

2,866 
  

3,274 
  



Highland 
  

59 
  

58 
  

61 
  

75 
  

124 
  



Lanarkshire 
  

328 
  

353 
  

320 
  

427 
  

543 
  



Lothian 
  

1,767 
  

1,886 
  

1,788 
  

1,877 
  

2,012 
  



Orkney 
  

- 
  

- 
  

1 
  

- 
  

- 
  



Shetland 
  

26 
  

27 
  

43 
  

24 
  

17 
  



Tayside 
  

243 
  

169 
  

357 
  

577 
  

550 
  



Western Isles 
  

2 
  

1 
  

2 
  

5 
  

14 
  



Outside Scotland 
  

5 
  

3 
  

3 
  

2 
  

8 
  



  Notes:

  1. The definition of "new" is (a) the person is attending the particular service for the first time ever or (b) the person has attended before but not within the previous six months.

  2. All figures in this table exclude penal establishment inmates.

  3. Please note alcohol is reported to the database only if it is used as a secondary drug.

  4. In 1999-2000 information was received for the first time from nine agencies in Ayrshire & Arran health board area.

  Additional information is published in Drug Misuse Statistics Scotland 2000; a copy of this publication will be held by the Parliament’s reference centre or is available online at:

  http://www.drugmisuse.isdscotland.org/publications/abstracts/ISDbull.htm

  Following are statistics on parliamentary questions and answers for the period from 28/05/2001 to 22/06/2001

  


 


Scottish Executive


Presiding Officer


Total




Total questions asked


523


17


540




Total questions answered


514


8


522




  


Total non-recess questions answered (breakdown)




Answered within:


Scottish Executive


Presiding Officer




0-14 days


346


6




2-4 weeks


58


2




4-6 weeks


37


0




6-8 weeks


25


0




8 weeks and over


40


0




Total answered


506


8




  


Total recess questions answered (breakdown)




Answered within:


Scottish Executive


Presiding Officer




0-21 days


0


0




3-5 weeks


0


0




5-7 weeks


1


0




7-9 weeks


6


0




9 weeks and over


1


0




Total answered


8


0